It's official, a woman will be on the new $10 bill (solution, cost)

[Adrian71]

Originally Posted by Iamme73

Huh, Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton are non Presidents on paper currency. So the precedence of putting non presidents on paper money already established.

And Salmon P. Chase is on the $10,000 bill. Heck, in the early days of U.S. paper money, lots of people appeared on the bills who weren't presidents, from Cabinet members to war heroes to Indian chiefs. Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was on one bill. Even Martha Washington once made an appearance. The current crop of faces didn't become standardized until the 1920s.

Before Lincoln in 1909, the U.S. never put actual people on coins, either. It was usually either an Indian chief or Lady Liberty.

So yeah, plenty of precedence here.

[aliasfinn]

I thought they already a woman on paper currency.
Who's that fat ugly broad with the white hair and receding hairline on the 1 dollar bill ?

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Originally Posted by aliasfinn

I thought they already a woman on paper currency.
Who's that fat ugly broad with the white hair and receding hairline on the 1 dollar bill ?

Holy hell, just where did you get a bill with Nancy Pelosi on it?

[Idon'tdateyou]

Originally Posted by Iamme73

Huh, Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton are non Presidents on paper currency. So the precedence of putting non presidents on paper money already established.

They are founding fathers. Plus Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

[Iamme73]

Originally Posted by Idon'tdateyou

They are founding fathers. Plus Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

So? They are still non presidents.


Basically the requirement that people on our money be a former president or a founding father guarantees on,y white men on paper currency.

What sense does that make?

I mean are people so ignorant or hateful that the simple act recognizing that Americans who aren't white men are great Americans who against all odds made this nation better and they too deserve to be honored by being put on paper currency, upsets them?

[janellen]

Clara Barton -- founded the Red Cross

[katzpaw]

If the GOP gains the White House in 2016 there will be a big change in the candidate list.

[Supplies]

Originally Posted by citylove101

Enough with the politics. America has never had any type of artist on its currency. So how about a creative person for a change? I'd consider:

Marian Anderson
Ella Fitzgerald
Georgia O'Keefe
Emily Dickinson
Martha Grahm

All have represented the U.S. at its best.
Personally, I'd love to see Ella on the tenspot.

Wow Ella , like!

[mm4]

Originally Posted by katzpaw

If the GOP gains the White House in 2016 there will be a big change in the candidate list.

Why do you say that?

[SpencerMtn]

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